{{Short description|Department store in Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{about|the defunct Glasgow department store|the Dublin department store|Arnotts (Irish department store)}} {{Infobox company | name = Arnotts | logo = | image = Former Arnotts Paisley.jpg | image_caption = Former Arnott's department store, Paisley | type = [[Private company]] | genre = [[Department store]] | industry = [[Retail]] | foundation = {{start date and age|1850|df=y}} | founders = [[John Arnott]] | defunct = {{End date|1936}} | location = Jamaica Street, Glasgow, Scotland | key_people = | area_served = [[Glasgow]] | products = | services = | revenue = | net_income = | num_employees = | parent = | divisions = | subsid = | owner = | website = }}
'''Arnotts''' was a [[department store]] in [[Glasgow]], Scotland. Established as a drapery shop in 1850, the business became a department store in the 1870s. In 1936 it was bought by the company that became [[House of Fraser]], who used the Arnotts brand for other acquisitions from the 1970s onwards.
==History==
The store was opened by [[John Arnott]] as a subsidiary of Arnott, Cannock & Co of [[Dublin]] in 1850 in Jamaica Street as a drapery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c1219|title=Company: Arnott, Cannock & Co|website=House of Fraser Archive @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> During 1886 the partnership between Arnott and Cannock was dissolved and Thomas Arnott, half brother of John, ran the store under the name of Arnott & Co.
In 1864, the building was acquired from the trustees of the [[City of Glasgow Bank]], expanding the store so by 1874 it was a department store.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c1217|title=Company=Arnott & Co|website=House of Fraser Archive @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> In 1891 the business was incorporated and by 1906 the store frontage was remodelled. During the 1920s and 1930s the company started to struggle and in 1936, [[House of Fraser|Fraser, Sons & Co Ltd]] bought the business and created a new Arnott & Co company.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c0526|title=Company:Arnott & Co Ltd|website=House of Fraser Archive @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> Frasers modernised the store with the second and third floor being opened up to showroom space, and the addition of an elevator. In 1938, it was merged by Frasers with neighbour Robert Simpson & Sons, whom they had also purchased in 1936, to create Arnott-Simpson Ltd.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c0700|title=Company:Arnott & Co|website=House of Fraser Archive @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c1412|title=Company:Robert Simpson & Sons Ltd|website=House of Fraser @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> The two stores were reconstructed as one. In 1947, the Arnott-Simpson company was liquidated, along with Fraser, Sons & Co, and Arnotts became a trading name of the [[House of Fraser]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/company/?id=c0698|title=Company:Arnott-Simpson Ltd|website=House of Fraser @ University of Glasgow|access-date=6 May 2021}}</ref><ref>[http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/collects/catalog/hf/hf004.html Records of Arnott-Simpson Ltd, drapers, Glasgow, Scotland] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924222643/http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/collects/catalog/hf/hf004.html |date=24 September 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA00965|title=Glasgow City Archives, Planning Department|author=Scott Graham - ABACUS|publisher=|accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref>
Further department stores acquired by House of Fraser were successively re-branded as Arnotts during the 1970s and 80s, the trading name eventually being applied to the majority of the group's stores in Scotland. These included stores of the former T. Baird & Sons group and two of House of Fraser's seven [[Edinburgh]] stores (including [[Patrick Thomson]]).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12705350.arnotts-to-close-with-loss-of-200-jobs-16m-centre-development-to-include-woolworths/|title=''Arnotts to close with loss of 200 jobs. £16m centre development to include Woolworths''|publisher=The Herald|date=18 December 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/hourstons-closes-ayr-last-independent-14059940|title=''Hourstons closes in Ayr as last independent department store shuts up shop today''|publisher=Daily Record|date=27 Feb 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/inverness/2217002/major-plans-to-transform-abandoned-old-shop-into-flats-in-inverness-centre-approved|title=''Major plans to transform abandoned old shop into flats in Inverness centre approved''|publisher=The Press and Journal|date=26 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2014/10/15/shopping-icons-50-years-ago-dundee-city-centre-was-full-of-legendary-shops-and-crammed-with-customers|title=''Shopping icons – 50 years ago Dundee city centre was full of legendary shops and crammed with customers''|publisher=Evening Telegraph|date=15 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=terry>{{cite book |title=Mastering Background to Business |author=Terry. L. Price |date=1989 |isbn=978-0-333-48802-7 |oclc=18325965 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-19833-7 |page=70}}</ref> House of Fraser closed its last remaining Arnotts store, that in [[Paisley, Renfrewshire|Paisley]] (formerly Robert Cochran & Sons purchased 1964<ref>{{cite news|title=House of Fraser|work=The Guardian, p.12|date=30 July 1964}}</ref>), in January 2004.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/house-fraser-quit-highlands-2464974%3f|title=''House of Fraser to quit Highlands''|publisher=The Scotsman|date=1 November 2003}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
[[Category:Defunct department stores of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:History of Glasgow]] [[Category:House of Fraser]]